Definition of "choler"

Threatned with frowning wrath and iealouſie,Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge,I ſtand agaſt: but moſt aſtoniedTo ſee his choller ſhut in ſecrete thoughtes,And wrapt in ſilence of his angry ſoule.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act III, scene ii

This roused the tinker's choler, already provoked at Tugwell's amorous freedom with his doxy, and he gave him a click in the mazard. Tugwell had not been used tamely to receive a kick or a cuff; he, therefore, gave the tinker a rejoinder, […]

1808, Richard Graves, The Spiritual Quixote, page 127